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WWII's forgotten: Serbian heroes: Gregory Freeman's superb book, The Forgotten 500, recounts the story of the American and Allied airmen rescued by Serbian General Draza Mihailovich and his heroic fighters.(The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II)(Book review)
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The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War H, by Gregory A. Freeman, New York: The New American Library, 2007, 313 pages, hardcover, $23.95.
Since the close of the Second World War is now more than six decades in the past, even the younger surviving participants in that war are well into their seventies and eighties. Consequently, firsthand memories of that greatest war of the modern era are quickly fading. The neral history is, of course, preserved in books and various film documentaries, and will therefore not be forgotten. Yet, many of the more obscure events of ...
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